Man shot dead in Bronzeville during robbery

At about 2:30 a.m., a man in his 20s was killed in the 4900 block of South Drexel Boulevard. He was sitting in a car with his girlfriend when two men, one of whom was armed, walked up and announced a robbery. The dead man tried to fight back but was instead shot to death. He was pronounced deat at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 3:10 a.m.